More on Pesticides
MORE ON PESTICIDES According to the Environmental Working Group, most of our essential fresh fruits and vegetables contain pesticides. They have listed: The ''Dirty Dozen'' (starting with the worst) peaches apples sweet bell peppers celery nectarines strawberries cherries pears grapes (imported) I suspect all grapes!! But I buy them spinach lettuce potatoes The ''Cleanest 12'' […]
Monsodium Glutamate – The Anti-Bliss, Pro-Fat Factor
MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE – THE ANTI-BLISS, PRO-FAT FACTOR February 18, 2007, the NEW YORK TIMES had an editorial that emphasizes the true meaning of ignorance-failure to acknowledge facts! In China's ''True Dash of Flavor'' Fuchsia Dunlop extols the flavor-enhancing value of one of the most ubiquitous and dangerous food additives, MSG, or monosodium glutamate. To some […]
Longevity
LONGEVITY Statistics are of course a multivariate and inconsistent aspect of what I call vague mathematics! Average listing of longevity in Americans in 2003 was listed as 77.6 years. It is based upon average age of death in the preceding year. But even in our third largest city, Chicago, average longevity ranged from 75.8 to […]
Lavender, Tea Tree Oil & Phytoestrogens
LAVENDER, TEA TREE OIL, & PHYTOESTROGENS Sugar and spice and everything nice does not necessarily apply to lavender oil, tea tree oil and possibly many more. Actually, there are over 300 foods containing phytoestrogens-chemicals essentially like estradiol. The highest concentration of phytoestrogens is in soy beans, clover, alfalfa, legumes of all kinds, licorice, ginseng and […]
Killer Cold Virus and Immunity
KILLER COLD VIRUS AND IMMUNITY Recent headlines include the link: Killer Cold Virus Ad14 Appears in U.S. There have been serious viral and bacterial diseases as long as we can tell from both recorded history and archeological records. Bubonic plague, tuberculosis, AIDS, and even influenza have at times wiped out millions of people. However, in […]
Leptin, Obesity & Disease
LEPTIN, OBESITY AND DISEASE Leptin is an adipose tissue produced hormone related to appetite and obesity. Ordinarily increasing levels of leptin suppress appetite and increase energy expenditure. Leptin is also responsible for pubertal development. Interestingly, urinary leptin is higher in prepubertal girls entering puberty than in prepubertal boys entering puberty. At the same pubertal time, […]
Honey Is The Preferred Sweetener & Has Great Health Benefits Too
Our home has had no white sugar in it for almost 4 decades. Our sweetener of choice is honey. (For those rare dishes which do not do well with it, we use fructose which is twice as sweet as table sugar, so half the calories. And at most, we use a pound a year!) Honey, […]
Holos University Graduate Seminary
HOLOS UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SEMINARY In 1967, when I began exploration of alternatives to drugs and surgery for management of chronic pain, I had no idea how far from conventional medicine it would take me. By 1973, I realized that a vast majority of human problems are the result of unhealthy behavior and cumulative stress, to […]
HOMOCYSTEINE REVISITED
HOMOCYSTEINE REVISITED THE H* FACTOR SOLUTION *(Homocysteine, the Best Single Indicator of Whether You are Likely to Live Long or Die Young) By James Brady, M.D. and Patrick Holford Basic Health Publications, Inc, North Bergen, N.J., 2003, $14.95 This superb little book contains 220 scientific references related to homocysteine research. And while I have long […]
Health Freedom
HEALTH FREEDOM Please read to the end to see why I endorse the National Health Freedom Coalition, Nationalhealthfreedom.org! I am happy to be a Board member of this important organization. Almost 30 years ago, Stanley Gross brought to my awareness the serious inadequacy of licensure in his ground-breaking book, OF FOXES AND HEN HO– USES. […]